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CAMBODIA: Hope Emerges in Epicentre of Drug-resistant Malaria
- Inter Press Service
In a western corner of Cambodia known for battles waged by the genocidal Khmer Rouge decades ago, a new war is being fought. Its target, this time, is the lethal malaria parasite that is resistant to the most effective drugs available today.
AFRICA: Everything but Arms Initiative Benefits Too Few People
- Inter Press Service
The Everything but Arms trade initiative, which provides preferential treatment to poor countries, benefits only a limited range of people in the target populations. It should also be expanded to more countries, civil society organisations say.
CENTRAL AMERICA: Doors Wide Open for Renewable Energy
- Inter Press Service
Heavy reliance on petroleum imports, the need for electricity in rural areas, and the ongoing effort towards sustainable development have focussed Central America's attention on renewable energy. But that doesn't mean there isn't opposition.
MALDIVES: Political Tensions Simmer in Tourist Paradise
- Inter Press Service
Tourists taking in the sun and sand in the idyllic Maldives may be forgiven if they are unaware of the political developments in this country, even when President Mohamed Nasheed’s government teetered on the brink of collapse recently.
ENVIRONMENT-INDIA: Fighting Drought With Check Dams
- Inter Press Service
Gazing out at the lush greenery that surrounds the village of Salaita in northern India, a smile of satisfaction appears on retired army general A.P.S. Chauhan's face.
CHINA: A Year After Xinjiang Riots, Ethnic Tensions Simmer
- Inter Press Service
More than a year after the riots in China’s remote Xinjiang autonomous region, the country’s bloodiest ethnic clash in decades, calm has returned to the capital Urumqi. But the underlying tensions remain — tensions that Beijing will be forced to address as it moves forward in its campaign to develop the country’s west.
Obama Says U.S. Will 'Redouble' Efforts Against Al-Shabaab
- Inter Press Service
U.S. President Barack Obama has said Washington will 'redouble' its efforts against the Somali Islamist group al- Shabaab (The Youth), whose deadly bombings in Kampala Sunday are likely to result in stepped-up U.S. military and other assistance to the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) in Mogadishu.
INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS: Women Join Forces for Political Equality
- Inter Press Service
'Instead of moaning all the time, why don’t you create your own (political) party?' some men asked Brigitte Rabemanantsoa Rasamoelina, a female politician from Madagascar. She accepted the challenge and in February formed <i>Ampela Mano Politika</i>, a political party which started with only 22 female members and now has over 5,000 female members ... and 10 men.
PARAGUAY: Women Manage Dairy for Self-Sufficiency
- Inter Press Service
A year ago, Ramona Pereira was stuck with humdrum domestic drudgery in a rural village in Paraguay. Now she is the leader of a committee of women dairy producers in her community, and at 38 she feels like a new woman.
DEVELOPMENT-ZIMBABWE: 'Competing With the Dogs for Bones'
- Inter Press Service
'People used to mock me, saying that I am competing with dogs for bones, but these taunts do not deter me,' says Sibongile Mararike with no sign of rancour.
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